8vertise is finally here. It is officially soft-launched today, on Nov. 8th, 2008. What is 8vertise? 8vertise is a brand new spam-free and family-friendly human-edited web directory. It envisioned itself as a web directory like no other.
The statistics already looked good on 8vertise, even before its soft launch. 26 links has been submitted during 8-day pre-launch link submission period. Today it has achieved 287,463 Alexa Ranking (1 week average), up 57,876 ranks from yesterday. Ambitious 8vertise sets a target to achieve 100,000 Alexa Ranking (3 months average) and get more than 1,000 links submitted in less than a year time. To make that a reality, 8vertise team has brainstormed and planned many great features and campaigns for its users and advertisers (called ‘8vertisers’)
Brainchild of Ian Kree, a Malaysia-based internet entrepreneur, its long term goal is ‘8vertise for Everyone’. Ian Kree, said "8vertise should belong to everyone, not only belong to me. The main challenge that we face is how to make 8vertisers and users fall in love with 8vertise, they feel that they need 8vertise and lastly, they feel that they own 8vertise. 8vertise is built for that challenge."
Built for everyone, it certainly thinks for everyone’s benefits. 8vertise groups websites in 259 categories and subcategories, covering various topics like arts, beauty, blogs, business, computers, education, entertainment, family & home, finance & insurance, games, health & fitness, internet, marketing & advertising, news & media, sports, shopping, travel and web services. To 8vertise, more is always better. More directories means faster and better results for its users. It is also a searchable directory.
8vertisers will love it too. Firstly, the link submission fee starts from $1 (minimum). It is a one time payment and the link will stay in the directory permanently. 8vertise also allows 8vertisers to contribute more to raise their links to better positions. It lists links in descending order according to the contributions. Hence, better position means better visibility in users’ point of view. 8vertise presents top contributor (Link Leader) sitewide. Top 10 Overall Link Leaders are showcased on its homepage. And Top 10 Category Link Leaders are shown first in every category and subcategory. 8vertise offers more rewards and recognitions to its contributors through ‘Be a Record Breaker’, ‘Get 1 Free Deeplink’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ campaigns.
8vertise’s tagline is ‘Do You 8vertise?’ To 8vertisers, it is an invitation to submit their links to its directory. And to users, it is invitation to use 8vertise web directory.
For more information, please visit www.8vertise.com.
